“He can't even hear them in the car when they answer him so he starts screaming at them. I'm petrified of their safety. The island is trying to recover right now.

“He's always been a bully but now it's like he's on steroids,” she added.

On the stand, Al D'Amato — known as “Senator Pothole” during his three terms in office — wept recalling the evening of Sept. 30, when his wife was taken away in an ambulance. She'd told cops she feared an intruder was shining green lasers into the D'Amato's Lido Beach home.

Katuria D'Amato says the former senator is "not capable" of taking care of their two children.

(David Wexler/For New York Daily News)

“I'm divorcing you. You're no f---ing good!” Al D'Amato recounted Katuria saying as she was taken for a psychiatric evaluation.